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JqX. A. HARRIS, Editor. $1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. FOR THE PU3LIO. GOOD. VOL. IV. ABour kissing; ' little chili when twilight ebadowa. Cose, the western gates of gold . Xbn those bring anna of mother' Tenderlj about the fold. Orer lip. d cheek, and forehead Like a ehower careeeea fail, Tor a ttotber'e ki at twliigLt ' i$the sweetest kUa of all. ' rretty maiden at the gateway, ,t Shy, eweet lace an J downcast eye, Xiro while trembling hand Imrridonel, How the golden moment flieel , Lip lhat aofly prtsaiby forehead, h roar blushes call -Tfr kie at twilight t, fcnlekt kL-a of alL " :j , .thytoUe husband. in. jiore than half a lover yit For t ;oee tuunj houra of wooing Are too eweet to eoon forget On thy exiling lipe np'-ifted. Full of love h a kieaee fall. For a husband kiss at parting I, the d are at kiei of all. Wetry mother, little chi'dren, ' Wjh their dimpled handa ao fair. Paing over cheek and forehead, 1 Soothe away all pain and care; Leid your doubting heart to Heaven. Wh re no dreary shadows fall, For the tea of rin'eaa childhood U the pureet kiea of all. , The Wife's Lesson. Mm was pouting. ? The unmistakable expression of ill-temper jisflgured her pretty face; and Ernest sighed as lie remembered bow oflea it had been there during their brief married ex-j-erience. Upon the breakfast table were standing the dishes of a substantial meal, in the dis order that followed their use. Breakfast was over, but Ernest still kept his scat, toying absently with a teaspKn, while Myra looked at him with the cross look of a thwarted child. Then you won't give me the dress!" he said. I can't -3Iyra. I really could not do it without running in;o debt. 'That's just an excuse. Papa always ave me the money for my clothes, even, if Le was cross about somo other tilings.? "Your father was a rich man, jMyra, when we were married." '1 wish he was rich no-vv. I'd ask him tor the money . I never thought you would be so stingy, Ernest.' This last thrust vu too iuch for the long enduring temper. . Ernest Slather's Voice was very stern a? he answered: "J am not stingy, Myra. You knew I was, a poor man when you married me, and your old home ; but 1 have granted you everv indulgence in my power without get ting'intc debt. That I will not do for your -ake as well as min." He left her thn, lingering in the hall as he put en his overcoat, hoping she would tome for a kiss and a word of reconcilia tion. ' ,Iut she sat tapping her little foot upon the flour until the hall door closed, and then ran to her room crying. . Ske was a spoiled child, the only dauijh teaMaman who had been very wealthy, baL?no had hazarded his money in an un fortunate speculation and lost. A rxsition abroad was offered him and he accepted it. . , , . His house and furniture which he had given his daughter for a wedding gift, were settled upon herself, and not affected by his change of fortune. He knew Ernest Mather to be an honor able man, who had a good business capacity and a high place in the esteem and confi dence of his employers and felt no anxiety about Myra's future, v . So the littl wife, as she made her pretty blue eyes -all red with tears of temper, bad no sensible mother to tell her how wrongly she was acting, no sister to sympathize with ber, no one to scold or humor her. v.. Under the circumstance the tears were soon dried and Mrs. Mather went put for a walk. . . It's no barm to look at the dress again, even if I cau't buy it, she said, as she tried on a coquettish little bonnet, and otherwise beautifl-d herself for the expedit'on. The day was bright, a soft warm morning in early spring, and the ' shops were filled with tempting finery. In Myra's dainty portemonnaie there was enough money to purchase a number of nice little parcels, even though the price of the expensive dress was denied her. So the morning slipped away and lunch eon time found her chatting with Julia Maxwell, and quite willing to accompany that friend on a second tour in the after noon. It was after five o'clock when the little matron, 'Hired to death as she said reach ed her Lome. Her first sheck was catching sight of Ernest's maiden aunt. Miss Cordelia Lowry, ner especial aversion and dread, seated upon the drawing-room sofa. . ' Old horror!" she muttered. "I wish ahe was at home: I want to make up with Ernt st. I don't like the dress half as much as I did yesterday. ' The second shock met her upon opening the door of her bedroom. ' f Open boxes, closcUs drawers, an air of general confunon everywhere, and that small trunk Ernest always took upon his short business trips missing altogether. Clearly her hu&band had packed up and jrone, leaving Aunt .Cordelia, as usual, to keep Myra company. .'. But where was he. Upon the dressing tabic was a note di rected to herself, and Mrs. Mather lore it open., - -. No loving address to herself, bat merely this: . I have waited for your return as long as pcfslble, and I write thla to explain my CHAPEL absence,. I told you sit months ago of Mrl Agnew's offer to me if I would accept the position of traveler to the house double my Dresent salary and a liberal commission. I declined It then because you said the money would never compensate you for the conxtant separation. To-day the offer is renewed. After our conversation this" morning I think your only objection will hardly have any weight ; so I have accepted and leave in an hour. I will write you every month, inclosing remittances, j I leave the accompanying bank-note for the dresa you desire. I have sent for AunV Cdelia, as usual, to stay with you. j . Ernest MathebL Not a loving word, not a word of regret for the long separation. - ; Myra realized then how considerate and loving her husTJarid "had been under! the weary vexations of her whims and caprices. Great fears rolled down her cheeks as she bitterly reproached herself. "I have made him believe I don't care for anything but money, " she thought. lie leaves me this to console me for his absence. Oli, Ernest, come home again and I'll wear calico and a sunbonnet to church before I'll tease you for finerj' again!" L It was not an easy matter to go to dinner and meet Aunt Cordelia, but it must, be done. ' - It was no new thing for that worthy spin ster to see Mvra in tears when Ernest was away on business, so she only expressed a desire to see "any man alivel she'd cry for," and, said no more about the little life's red eyes. ," The days passed very, very wearily. . Aunt Cordelia preached only sermons to Myra upon extravagance and various other female weakness, till the nnor little woman - wished she was, as homely and ill looking as a it . i ucr lormemor nersen. "You never see me with such a dress in the house as that," the spinster world say with a coniplaceut glance at her dyed skirts. ' I buy clothes to wear,1' Myra retorted. If I had as much money as you, Aunt Cordelia, I'd be ashamed to go about in such dreases." And the spinster would shake her head and groan audibly, rntymly, "pcor, dear Ernest.' ' 7 . ' You never see me," was her ever open ing address. , ; And Myra grew to hate the words in the Ijng uicnths of her cnfir-xxl companion ship, iX j t . . ; For Ernest did not return. . Spring, summer, autumn passed away, and Decern! er was opening, yet still he did not come. Every month a formal letter reached Myra, inclosing a check for expenses; of such! liberal value as to prove Ernest was making money; but eacn one informed her that her husband was just leaving the place from which he wrote and made no mention of his next destination. i j Heart-tick, penitent, and oh! so lonely, b U -rif npent ooljr -whi as 8Arf for the house, and fairly loathed the sight of the money that was accumulating in her hands. v j Letter after letter she wrote and destroy ed, not knowing where to direct them. ! - She was growing so pale and worn, j bo quiet and subdued, that Aunt Cordelia's most hateful speeches went often unan swered. She was sitting in the drawing room one cold December morning, when Mr. Agnew, Ernes;'s employer, came in. j! 'I am sorry to disturb you Mrs. Mather,' ho said, but t wish to inquire of you if you have heard from Ernest this week." M "Not since the first," she replied. IIe wrote us on the fifih that he would remain in Cumberland until ihe first of the year,i and was to send some papers on th? seventh. These have not come and we are embarrassed for want of them. I tele graphed yesterday but have no reply. How ever, i if you have not heard he is ill, he is probably better. Ill," ehe faltered. . i "Well, I judged from his last letter that he hiid not fully recovered from the fever he had, although he had resumed business. If you hear to-day will you be kind enough to send us word?" f j' Certainly," Myra managed to gasp in a choking voice, and Mr. Agnew was gone. "111! A fever! Sick at a hotel and she not near! Ernest, her Ernest ! " j All the love in the little woman s heart rose to protest. She astonished Aunt Cor delia by dashing into that lady a room cry- ake care of the house 1 I'm going to Cumberland!" and dashed out again as abruptly. . ' i The trunk was packed. ; Myra never knew what went into it. ; She hugged her hoard o money. -; Carefuhy she put it in the bosom of her dress.' , Sho cried and laughed and acted general- lv like a lunatic The afternoon found her in an express train, jrushing to Ernest as fast as steam Iidefpasant room, Ernest Mather lay upon bis bed dangerously ill. ; He had been for months trying to quiet his sick, restless heart by over-working his hvlawing uch business hours, such c' S labors in his werk, that the firm aflame never ceased congratulating them selves on tkeir choice of a traveler. He bade money fast, supply Myra with a genius hand, and yet saved consider ably, j ! ' BUteriyahe thought that when he was a very richman he would go home and try to love her; but the unceasing craving of his to the sight of her face and the sound of her voice contradicted it. pain, till the overwrought brain gave i way, the overtaxed body succumbed and he lay ni with fever for two weeks, TJr j ato before hi. strength was half re stored? and now the relapse had Ped Snd he la suffering, apparently dylnfr HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1880, too ill to seiSd for Myra, too ill to give di rections, too ill to do any more than lie helpless at the mercy of strangers. , The long night was passing, and the cold-; gray dawn announced another wintry day, when a vehicle drove up at the ioor of the hotel, -and in a dim, confused, way Ernest heard the bustle of the new arrived travel ers. , ' : - ... :'Jf'i He was vaguely wondering if any friend would come to him, when the door of his room Opened very softy and he heard the waiter say: . . "Mr. Mather. is here." i. J' A soft little rustle followed,' and then two cool hands fell upon his hot forehead, tears and kisses followed, and 3Iyra was sob bing: - C-Qh, Ernest, darling! thank God, T nave foitnd you! Oh, dear, forgive me!" . He was too "Bick to talk much, but he made his wife fully understand his business, and then sank off to sleep jn the sweet con sciousness that love had come to him, a nurse aud comforter. It was a long, tedious illness, but in the years that followed it Ernest and Myra looked back upon it as the beginning of their true happiness. Doubts and repinings were swept away in the danger of a separation in the grave, and all Myra's penitence went into such self-sacrificing devotion as snatched her husband from the veryaws of death to her side again. ' " v i i The Fires of 1879. During the past five years, $353,018,255 worth of property has been destroyed by fire in the United States. In 1876 the loss was $78,102,285, in 1876, $64,620,600, in 1877, $68,205,800, in 1878 $64,315,900, and in 1879 $77,703,700.- The last year, it will be seen, was unlucky and only $400-, 000 better thin 1875, although in 1875 Virginia City, Nev., was visited by a blaze which swept away over $6,000,000 worth of property. The losses to insurance companies last year were in excess of the losses of any of the four previous years. These losses amounted in 1875 to $39,325, 400, in 1876 to $34,374,500, in 1877 to $39,398,900, in 1878 to $36,575,900, and in 1879 to $44,464,700. During the five years ;there were 65,576 fires. Poorly constructed buildings, carelessness' on the part of occupants and incendiarism are the principals causes of fires. Among the several Stales New York leads in the figure. In 1876 her loss was $14,090,900, in 1877, $11,456,400, in 1878 $9,397,000, and in 1879 $15,793,200. Pennsylvania comes next with a total loss in the four years of $28,123,600. Maeeachusetts lost. $20,991,300; Illinois $14,432,200. Ofd agricultural implements factories 33 were burned last year, 10 almshouses, 86 bake- I rie, 13 butcher shops, 40 billiard saloons, 111 UiaCKSiniUi ouupe, a uwauiuucijw, w box factories, 42 breweries 103 carpenter shops, 104 carriage factories, 20 cheese factories. 13 chemical works, 90 churches (of churches 58 were burned in ,1878, 64 in 1877, 66 in 1876 and 77 in 1875), 3 theatres, 25 cigar factories, 10 coffin facto ries, 17 college buildings, 12 coal yards, 40 confectionaries, 33 cooper shops, 26 cotton mills, 13 cotton warehouses, 13 court houses, 17 distilleries, 223 drug stores, (of drug stores, in the five years beginning with 1875, were burned respectively 114, 145, 150, 191 and 223,) 20 drying houses, 11 dye works, 14 engine houses, 13 ex press officers, 34 fancy good stores, 58 feed stores, 170 flouring mills (a great increase over former years), 83 furniture factories, 153 cotton-gin houses, 10 glass factories, 60 grain elevators, 34 grain warehouses, 12 greenhouses, 77 grist mills, 479 ratail and 11 wholesale country grocery stores, 81 harness factories, 13 hat factories, 384 betels, 224 liquor stores, 10 beer saloons, 13 spoke factories, 61 ice houses, 70 iron foundries, 10 jails, 13 junk stores, 16 laundries (not one owned by a Chinaman), 65 lumber yards, 42 machine shops, 11 match factories, 45 meat factories, 47 newspaper offices (an average number), 24 oil refineries, 12 oil tanks, 45 paint shops, 20 paper mills, 18 rag shops, 12 paste factories, 65 photographic ' galleries, 13 picture frame factories, 86 planing mills, 21 pork packing houses, 12 powder mills, 51 printing offices, 38 public halls, 67 rail road depots,- 29 railroad repair shops, 12 railroad stables, 218 saw mills, 39 shingle mills, 28 sash factories, 169 restaurants; 58 school houses, 29 slaughter houses, 46 shoe factories, 18 shoddy mills. 16 smoke hous es, 23 stave factories, no stone yards, 10 sugar' refineries, 46 tanneries, 15 steam boats, 22 tobacco factories, 27 tobacco burns, 24 tinsmithies, 11 wheel wnght shops, 10 wood-turning shops, and 30 wool en mills. Physicians' Jfeea Regulated hy taw. The fee which physicians niay charge in Prussia for their services is regulated by law, and according to the most recent ordi nance, the charge for the first visit to a sick person is fixed at two marks (twenty-five cents standing for a mark), and one mark for each subsequent visit; where, however, several persons belonging to the samo fam ily and dwelling in the same house have to be treated at the same time, then, for the second and each succeeding person, only the half of those fees respectively is to be chareed the same rule Is to apply to board ingschools and similar institutions, also to orisons. When there is a consultation of several physicians about the treatment of a s?ck person, including their personal visits eaclpUysician is to receive for the first Snsultauon-five marks, and three marks for each subsequent similar consultation. On the occasion of . the firstjjr to the physician's residence for"hls medical ad Vice, one mark and a half. For the adimn istration of chloroform, eta. when nec3a sary for the treatment of the patient, three marks. ' ,-' Thirty thousand eggs of the Atlan tic salmon have been placed in a hatch lmr houee at Bloomsburg, Pa., .where thfre are already 600,000 California salmou. - Snaring an Alligator. j-f ,1. i One day we had the "reserves" in been fishing in one of Florida an immense body of water reserved to flood the fields and we had found snakes and alligators particularly numerous, so much so that they became almost our sole topic of con versation. We had shot large numbers of them, so many, indeed, that we failed to extract any further interest from it. - While we were talking, one of 't the party said: f " , why don't you and Joe snare one of these 'gators? Y'oBr success with the old bucks warrants you in trying your hands." " ? A laugh followed, as it always does at Lahy aientioij of our deep scrape. . ; H 'What say you, Joel" I asked," when the laugh had subsided. i "We can do it," he answered, "and if you say so, we will." ! Of course I assented at once. .' When we reached home we began to dis cuss ways and means, and in the course of the next few days we rigged up the follow ing contrivance; we procured a strong seven-eights manilla rope, f srty feet- long, a small halter chain (twisted links), eight feet long; and a piece of well seasoned hickory. The latter we cut.tp a length of eight inches, leaving the diameter one and a half inches, and bringing the ' ends down to a long sharp point. At the center we girded it with a quarter inch groove, leav ing the diameter still one inch. We now repaired to the blacksmith, and had him forge a link three inches long of quarter inch iron, one end of which we slipped into the groove on our stick, and then putting the halter-snap in the other end we put the center of the link into the vise, giving it a severe nip, bringing the sides of the links together and securely fastening the stick of wood to the link. To the other end 5f the chain our rope was fastened. Our snare now had the appearance of a capital Tjyith the upright stroke very much elongated. We now procured a ten-pound chunk of beef, into'which we securely wattled the piece of hickory, and then, bringing one, end of the stick parallel with the chain, we fastened it there with a bit of yarn. Repairing to the reserve we selected a spot, secured our rope to a pine tree grow ing near its edge, and then by the aid of a canoe we carried the bait out as far as the rope would permit. To insure the floating of the'bait near the surface of the water we laid the rope across a five-foot strip of plank. Everything completed, we retired to await developments. Early next morning we were at the reserve, and there, sure enough, we had a 'gator fast, and judging from the jnuddy condition of the water he was a whopper, andiad been there some time. The robe was moving through the water at ' tiiite a rapid manner, and without unfas- tening it we maoe a pun wua au our ttrength, but we might as well nave tiled o lift an elephant' by the tail. i. The ques tion now was what to do with the chap since we had him, and in order to solve it the whole party were invited into the dis cussion. After much talk it was suggested and agreed to that we make use of , a small wagon and a pair of mules belonging to the party. I went for the team and in my haste did not take time to put the body on the wagon, it having been removed for the pur pose of hauling wood. Hastily throwing a plank across ' the bolsters, I seated myself and drove oyer to where the party awaited me. ; . ' The rope had been secured by a slip low without passing it around the tree, so we had only to fasten the loose end to the hind axle and drive away, and thus slip the knot and make a direct pull on the 'gator. After securely fastening this rope to the axle 1 seated myself on the plank and gave, the mules the slack. The mules'; were young, fiery and hardly broken to harness, and had repeatedly run away, endangering our lives on more than one occasion ; but we had not thought of this in our excitement. , For a moment after starting the team there was a strain on the rope, and then out came the' huge mpnster, covered with mud and lash ing the water into foam . with; his tail, the noise he made resembling to some extent the beatings of a huge propellor. The mules both looked around ; and as they did so the monster gave a roar that made the very earth tremble and the team, ialligator, and your bumble servant started for home. The distance was about two miles, and 1 think if Karus had seen us he would have left the track with a broken heart. The mules left the road in fact", made a new one without the aid of a surveyor and-i that alligator bounded in the air as he never bounded be fore. Now and then he would rap. against a tree, but he scarcely touched the ground, and I had serious fears for a while that in his anxiety fo go ahead he might put a head on me ; however, we reached home at last, and the mules, completely winded, stopped of their own accord. When we came to sum up we found all the run" taken out of the mules, one tire gone, three spokes in another wheel broken in fact, the wagon a wreck ; my suit of clothes torn to rags, and my person bruised, torn and bleeding by the terrible whipping of the hushes over which we had passed : and a fourteen-foot alligator with every bone broken and almost skinned by his constant banging against the trees. " f Teaching Kys to Writ Let the boys," says an English writer, "hold his pen as he likesand make his strokes as he likes, and write; at the pace he likes hurry, of course, being discouraged but insist strenuously - and persistently that his copy shall be legible shall be clean and shall approach the good copy set before him namely a well-written letter, not a rubbishy text on! a single line, written as nobody but a writing master; ever did or will write to the world's end. He will make a muddle at first, btit he will soon make a passable imitation of his copy, and ultimately develop a characteristic and strong hand, which may be rbad or good, but will not be either meaningless, undeci ded or illegible. This hand will alter, of course, very greatly as he.grows older." The Iowa Meteor. Thelarc-e meteoric mass, weighing 470 pounds, now at Keokuk. Iowa, ;penetrated a hard blue clay soil, covered with water, to the depth of twelve feet, j The mass weighing 170 pounds, now at;- the State University., fell on a dry grassy knoll, and was buried to? the depth of five and a half feet below the surface.' a A few rods from the largest mass was found a fragment weighing thirty pounds, and a school-boy picked up a specimen weighing three pounds a little distance ' away from the largest. These resembled the great body of the mete orite in all respects. There Was no ap preciable difference in time between the ex-; plosion and the striking on the earth. The form cf all the pieces is like that of rudely detached masses from a quarry, or ejected from the mouth of a volcano. The mass in the museum of the university has an ir regular rhomboidal outline, about, fifteen by eighteen inches, of an average thickness of six inches, ;.and when first obtained was covered, as most meteorites wih a black shining coat or crust. The largest mass is not so regular in its formation.' It is more ragged and bristle3 with points of nick elliferous iron. Prof. Heinrich,.o the Iowa State University, pronounced it the more valuable of the two large, massed; but full analyses wilLptobaJsly determine them to be one and the same, .while the nickel liferous iron seemed more abundant in the largest, the chrystalline formation .are (far more numerous in the smaller. 'Several observ ers saw the largest masses when they struck the ground, and state positively! that sod and gravel and dirt scattered far and near, and for a momant the air was filled with flying stones and small masses jof earth. The largest' struck near a school house, the smaller within twenty or thirty rods of a dwelling, much tothe terror of the; inmates. The language of the good old iadyi sitting bv the window at the' time, in a measure describes their fright: Mysoul! (thought the end of the world had come, and I fell on my face and waited.' The concussion produced by its passage through the air was. so great that glass was broken in jthe win dows, and in many instances where men were working in the field their horses were completely stunned with fright. The fol lowing is an account given me by one of the nearest eye witnesses: ,'I was! plowing corn, and my team was making to the west ward, when suddenly I was startled by a distant whirring .sound, which grejW louder and nearer, broken and crackling, and as I looked up toward the northwest J saw a large ball of fire sweeping, as it weje, down upon me. Instantly there came a: loud re port, at once followed by a second and third, not so loud as the first. In a few moments several persons were on j the spot where they saw; it fall, and began digging for what they knew not,' only, as they ex pressed, that ball of fire they saw fall there." The earth through which it passed presented a cracked, baked appearance, and the openings in the ground made by the meteorites indicated a twisting or revolving motion as thev seemed bored as with a large auger. . - v . 1 H- Cocoartuts. - 7.J . Large vessels loaded with cocoanuts leave the coast of Africa, but the! smaller and neater ones run between New Xor ano Cubu and the West Indies. Cargoes are secured there, the same as a cargo of pota toes would be secured here. The j captain can deal with firms who will offer to fill his ship lor so much;, or he can employ agents to deal directly with the natives who make a business of fruit-raising. The smallest fruiter will carry 100,000 cocoanuts in bulk. They are. tumbled into the hold the same as potatoes, and though they, do hot pack closely they make a heavy cargo. Sometimes a few thousand out . of a cargo come unhusked, but the mam lot is composed of husked nuts, ready to be hit on the head with a hatchet. During the last of November the American market was "short" on cocoanuts. Soon after Decem ber the 1st ten vessels, loaded down with this lruit arrived in a bunch, glutted the market, and prices went clear down. I write this in the cabin of a fruiter which took on 124,000 cocoanuts in the West In dies, with, the hope of being the first to catch . the short market. Head winds de layed her four day 8. Had she been four days sooner in Burling slip she would have cleared several thousand dollars; as it is she will not comej out even. The ten ves sels brought over l,000j000 cocoanuts in addition to other cargo. The fruiter hav ing been warped in, stern first, and made fast, planks are laid from the wharf over her rail, the consignee's help stand Iready, and down goes the tub into the hold after the first load.: As it comes up the nuts are emptied into bu&hel baskets of strong make, and( carried by hand along the plank and received by stout men on the warf. If you imagine the load to be a light one just pick up a bushel of the nuts and see if your backhair doesn't come up as you straighten your spinal column. It is slow, hardjworki The huts- were bought by count and the consignee will not receive them in any other manner. Those intended fof city trade and factory use are hauled away in wagons, and those to be shipped tcj other markets are sacked on the spot. There is but little waste in such a cargo. Perhaps one nut in 200 is broken in the loading, and the halves or pieces are cast one sidej when brought out. Those who receive and empty the baskets at the rail are the counters, and if a dozen huts have been extracted from the cargo while en route the fact is bousht out. Ten vessels, sixty sailors and 150 laborers have been employed in the jhand ling of this heap of 1,000,000 cocoanuts here at Burling Slip. Factories wil use a part, giving employ aient ) to hundreds of boys and girls, freight and express will handle a share, and before; the whole "are consumed 1,000 people will have earned daily; bread through handling them. ; By others' faults, wise men correct their own. i NO. 27. A Family Group In the Transvaal. After two and a half hours' halt to rest mules and horses, close to the farm-house of a Boer named Joubert, who was very civil, but a confirmed unbeliever as to the results of the Zulu war,-we pushed on to our resting place for the night the house of another Boer, named Maree (probably currupted from Marrais, which is a common name in the old colony), and had agoM opportunity ot studying a Dutch Interior. When we entered the sitting-room our eyes were . met by. the r spectacle of five nursing" mpthers, all the .daughters or daughters-in-law of a sedate, elderly lady, who sat by a table in the corner of a, room, and gave her hand coldly and, gravely to each of the strangers as the stepped care fully over the bechildren-studded floor to pay their respects to her; I became quite confused in . my attempts . to, count the . uumberof the youth of both sexes under the roof. They were of all ages, from the newly -born babe to boye and girls of 7 and 8, and presently stripling of 10 and 12, and criria nf thfi name flcp. besan to show, and these were followed by strapping husbands . ... 1 .ill U wrm ana latners, apa uroiueis, uu mo wu was quite full. Coffee was "handed round to the visitors, and pipes were lighted, and then the usual topics now becoming stale of Citfwayo'a capture, and 8ekukuni'a iniquity, and our awful wickedness, were discussed. One giant, of six feet four inches or so, roared till the tears came down his cheeks at the notion of the elever way in which the Zulus had done the Eng enders with a sham Citiwayo, and another swore he knew it as a fact that all our sol diers but a few hundred had ?been eaten up. Meanwhile the ladies were nursing and. very ample their resources seemed to be ad hoc and on the floor children rolled about in painless convulsions of play at their grandmother's feet, and the dame.aa a duchess, gave her. orders or spoke to her children without taking further notice . of us, once she has1 consented to our re for the nfoht in her euest-room. L Thither, we repaired for our frugal meal, to which Airs.. Juaree coninouieu a ioai ui bread (2s. 6d.), a bottle of milk, some fresh eggs, and a pound of butter, which, with our lodging, came to 14s. ' Our atten dant was a very intelligent-looking, serious lad of 12, named "Philip Maree,". 0 spoke English, and used it with great effect. "Why do you come here to take our land? If you do we will kill you.H "But, Philip,1 we don't iyant your land." "Then why doa't you go away and leave us? i hate you English." "Why" "Because yoa hunt fus all over the world.' "But wouldn't you like to be ah Englishman I "I!" (most indignantly) "Never." "But why not ?" "Because, if r was an English man I should have to get drunk on, brandy, and then be shut up in the trenk" (prison). However, he and his brothers and sisters were not above taking eweote from our hands and asking for more. After our meal was over one of the sons came In to invite us to sit with his father. Some of the mothers and fathers had. gone off to their homes, but there was still a large gathering in the room. ' Father Maree sat by his vrow at the end of it. scarcely visi ble by the one tallow candle on the table, and, after compliments, he opened fire by asking us "how Englishmen would act if foreigners came in and without cause upset their government and took it on, them selves ? " His father had left the colony because he did, not like a foreign govern ment ; he himself had given up everything he had, and left Natal to live in a new country, and now the English pursusd him, and said he must obey their laws or they would take his life. It was with a sense of relief the three guilty Britons retired for the night, and soon after their departure the strains riot unmusica!---of a hymn song, in choru?, resounded through the dwelling, ( followed by spiritual songs and psalms, for a full hour, till the evening prayers were over. J Fortunately, our door was fastened, for several small Marees demanded admis-, sion, and we were told that it was not un usual for two or three of them to sleep in the same bed with the weary traveler. Hemlock Water. An examination of Hemlock water has shown a number of very interesting animal cules. The beautiful vorticeTla, aninfusory animalcule, is quite abundant, and may be captured by observing due precaution. Draw a pail or pitcher of water by allow ing the full stream from the faucet. Allow the water in the vessel to settle for two or three hours. Then gently reduce the quantity by dipping or pouring. If the water becomes disturbed by the process, allow it to subside again, and then gently reduce the quantity by pouring or dipping until riot more than a half pint remains. Agitate this by swinging the pall or pitcher es though rinsing it, and pour, the water into a goblet shaped like a funnel. Nothing . can be seen with the naked eye. In an hour or two a dip with a glass tube may be taken from the bottom ot the glass. Hold the tube at an angle of about forty-five de grees with the finger over the end and per mit the animalcules to settle into the drop depending from the end. Finally allow this'drop to fall on a glass slide, and ex amine it with a two inch objective. - If the din is successful the animalcules will be seen rolling about, as most of the rortlcella thus far observed have been free. As the water begins to dry the motions will become less rapid and a higher power may be used, ; say a three-quarter inch objective. At last the animalcules may be quite highly magni fied, showing the most beautiful colors, and exhibiting the rapid motion of the cilia by which they are propelled. Finally the particolored sac of protoplasm bursts, leav-' ing "nothing but a patch of yellowish jelly on the slide, reminding us that one of the minutest living things has passed away to burden the water with its remains. An occasional diatom is met with, but the dia tom are not numerous at present. In sum mer diatoms and desxnida are ..quite abua- . danL . . - ' f r V. ! A. J . t-. - i r. . ' C; ,V; i
The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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April 17, 1880, edition 1
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